Miliband needles Romney on 'Mr. Leader'

By ALEXANDER BURNS

10/08/2012 10:13 AM EDT

The Obama campaign is up with an ad in Virginia today hitting Mitt Romney for his unsuccessful foreign trip this summer — and the left-of-center party over in the UK hasn't forgotten about that adventure, either.

A reader flags this video, via the BBC, showing Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband mocking Romney at an event last week for having addressed him as "Mr. Leader" during Romney's visit to London.

"Doing this job, you get called some names. Some of them nice, some of them not so nice. Let me tell you my favorite – it was when Mitt Romney came to Britain and called me ‘Mr. Leader,’" Miliband said. "I don’t know about you, but I think it has a certain ring to it myself. It’s sort of halfway to North Korea. Mitt – thanks a lot for that.”

The "Mr. Leader" gaffe didn't break through in the U.S. as much as the bigger kerfuffle over the Olympics, but from the reaction of Miliband's audience, it's evidently well remembered in some corners.